Venezuela hopes to create a trade bloc consisting of China, India and Russia to help the South American country settle oil payments in currencies other than the dollar, its oil minister said on Tuesday. The strife-torn country is looking for alternative payment methods to keep oil flowing to India, a crucial export market, especially after the United States imposed sanctions curbing the OPEC member’s crude exports to the United States. “We all can build one economy and that economy does not necessarily have to be within the dollar economy,” Manuel Quevedu said, referring to China, Russia and India. Quevedu, who on ... (full story)